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How do I get the unity “file” shortcut to go to existing windows instead of opening new ones
The unity "files" icon when initially clicked will open to the home folder, if you navigate to another mounted device and click the files icon it will open another window to the home folder instead of ...
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Icons for custom mime-type does not show up with Ubuntu-mono-dark theme
I manually installed LuxRender 1.2.1 under /usr/local/bin/ and it works fine and dandy. I then created 5 new mime-types for LuxRender *.lxs, *.lxo, *.lxm, *.lxv and *.flm file formats (scene, objects, ...
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How can I assign custom icons to folders persistently?
Windows Explorer doesn't stand a chance vs Nautilus for so many obvious reasons.
But there is a thing I don't understand. How did windows manage to write the icon on a folder so that the icon ...
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QQ - small, unidentifiable icons on desktop
Running QQ with Nautilus. Display is 1280 x 1024 - ViewSonic, recognized by QQ.
When I put a file or folder on the desktop, the icon is incredibly SMALL nearly INVISIBLE. Have to go into the change ...
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Mac Icons on Ubuntu 13.04! [duplicate]
I have already asked question like that. It was marked for duplicate. I want to not I AM NOT ASKING FOR 12.10 or 12.04!! I am asking for 13.04! I use Gnome Cupertino theme etc. but not everywhere ...
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Non-vector icons in Nautilus
I'm happy Acer AOD257 (2GB, Atom) netbook owner with Ubuntu 12.10.
I once saw that all Nautilus/Unity/Ubuntu icons are in raster and vector formats. BUT! I see vector only.
My netbook is weak, does ...
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How can I remove the gray boxes around custom folder icons? [closed]
When I set custom folder icons in Ubuntu 13.04, gray boxes appear around them:
How can I make the icons just look normal?
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How to get icons in Nautilus with X forwarding?
I'm using an Ubuntu Server, with X forwarding. I installed several GUI applications and using them with X forwarding.
I recently installed Nautilus too (to conveniently manage files). It works but, ...
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Bookmark icons in Nautilus
I know that when you are making a bookmark in nautilus the icon of the bookmark is the same as the folders icon but the problem is when i restart my pc the bookmark icon remains default until clicking ...
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How to display Trash and Home folder icons?
I've googled quite a bit but nothing I've found works. I just want to display the Trash, Home folder, Computer etc icons on my Desktop in Ubuntu 12.10.
The closest I've come is installing ...
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How do I change Nautilus 3.6 symbolic icons?
I have the new Nautilus 3.6 installed and the new symbolic icons for Home and Trash don't fit with the rest of my icon theme. How would I be able to change these icons? Is there a certain name I must ...
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Black background and No Icons
I am using Ubuntu 11.04 (Ubuntu Classic).
Recently my computer ran out of battery and when I plugged it in about an hour later I now have no icons, a black screen, and my file manager won't start ...
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Nautilus suddenly looks different after a restart
Nautilus now looks different, and I don't like it. Before I restarted, I installed a few things, so that could of caused it.
(the buttons are outlined and my icon pack isn't working for the 16x ...
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Icons for templates
I have some templates in my ~/Templates folder, but there is no icons in context menu for any of them except the default "Empty Document".
menus_have_icons is enabled
How to get/set them?
Ubuntu ...
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How can I programmatically change a file's icon?
If I select an icon in Nautilus and select Properties, I can click on the icon presented there. This gives me a file-chooser dialog to select a new icon image.
I would like to do this via a script of ...
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Computer, Home icons disappear from desktop after reboot
I previously enabled the display of the Computer, Home, Trash, and Network Servers icons on the desktop on Ubuntu 12.04, probably using MyUnity. Today, I installed a custom icon set and after ...
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Can't resize some icons
I upgraded to 12.10 yesterday and I am having a problem. Icons of my files are shown as the icon image's original size.
I tried to resize the icons but it did not work! But the normal size icons ...
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Where is Nautilus icon file located and how is it chosen?
When I plug my Garmin Nuvi 265 GPS device into my computer via a USB cable, it mounts as a drive with a blue triangle icon instead of the default gray hard drive icon. HOW does Nautilus know how to do ...
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Desktop does not show icons
Since this morning, I have some files in the desktop, but I cannot see them. I know nothing has been deleted, as
I can see what's on the desktop whenever I try to save anything from the Internet. How ...
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Change filetype icon (Pcmanfm LXDE)
I've been trying to change the icon for the filetype *.eml (message/rfc822) within PcManFm (file manager of LXDE) but after severall hours and many lines read and tried, I still cannot find a working ...
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Can we make custom folder icons show up in the dash?
Currently when you customize a folder's icon via its Properties from within nautilus, it looks great in nautilus - but when you try and jump to that folder via the Dash, it always displays that plain ...
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How do Nautilus album art thumbnails work?
There's something for which I've been searching an answer for a while now, but to no avail, and it's strange to me, as it seems like a thing that people would talk about: one of those nice little ...
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Where does Gnome/Nautilus store directory icons
On some key folders in nautilus I've changed the folder icons. It looks nice, and aids my productivity because I can easily find important folders in a mass of others.
But then I move to another ...
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How do I show the system icon in the pathbar automatically
I'm using Nautilus 3.4.2By default when it starts, depending on whether one is going to /home or a mounted device, the system menu icon and the home path or media path are not displayed.The ...
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Nautilus toolbar icons became bigger
I had installed Mac4Linux from here
I didnt like it that much so i removed it.
After removing it my nautilus toolbar icons have become large
Previously it used to look like this with small icons ...
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Migrate Nautilus file attributes (Icons, positions, folder views) to another computer
I am using Nautilus' options to add meta-data to files a lot. For example, I use manual positioning of Icons, have many files with custom icons and emblems, etc.
How can I copy all this ...
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Nautilus File Names
Upgraded to 12.04 with gnome 3, how do i get the file names to be shown under or beside folders and files.
I have Configuration Editor but i just can't find it! I must have done this in 11.10 but i'm ...
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Is there a way to automatically reorganize desktop icons?
Gnome has "Keep Aligned", Windows "Rearrange Automatically"; can't find it in Unity. Is it perhaps because we're not intended to have icons in the desktop?
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What is the difference between “Nautilus”, “Files” and “Home Folder”?
When I type "nau" in the search bar of the applications-HUD the result is a "Home Folder" folder and a "Files" folder installed but the "Files" has a Home drawing in it and is recently used, whereas ...
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How to hide all desktop icons in 12.04?
In 11.10 Using Configuration editor, one used to be able to edit a boolean parameter named : Desktop_Show
This allowed to hide/show all desktop icons.
This latter was removed in 12.04.
Someone, ...
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How can I change the folder icon?
I know how to change an icon this way. Also that doesn't work for folders inside Nautilus, but for application launchers.
What I'm looking for is an equivalent to changing the icon for an ...
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How do I add icons to change view type in Nautilus?
Is there a way to add, in the nautilus tool-bar, or in the bottom of the window, icons to change visualisation mode? Icons, list, detail..
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Can I add external device or other icons to the desktop?
I'm assuming the Unity bar is the bar located on the left hand side of the screen.
Is it possible to move those icons to the desktop, like a shortcut?
I'd like mainly all external device icons, like ...
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Why aren't sidebar bookmarks overlayed with their folder icons?
I'm trying to figure out why my bookmarked directories (on the left sidebar of the nautilus file browser) do not have icons. From what I've seen on random screenshots people have Down arrow for ...
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How can I change my Nautilus and icon themes back to what I had before? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Appearance does not change on switching the theme
For some reason, from about a few days ago, windows and icons look like Linux circa 1995.
I tried resetting my theme ...
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How can I assign custom icons to folders?
How do I assign custom icons to folders, as well as the default folders Desktop, Downloads, Music, etc.? I know that one way is to assign the properties of folders, but I want to assign icons in the ...
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Why does Nautilus use a separate icon rather than the one already docked from the default install?
When Nautilus is running it does not group open instances with the pre-existing docked icon. It adds this file cabinet looking icon to the task bar. I know this isn't default behavior and I'm ...
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Is is possible to change the icon of a particular folder?
Is is possible to change the icon of a particular folder (like in MS windows XP, etc), so that it is easily identifiable and strikingly visible.
please advise me.
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How do I enlarge “Icon & Thumbnail” size in nautilus 3.x?
I used to be able to set my icon/thumbnail size to 128 px using gconf-editor in previous versions of Ubuntu. Is there a tweak to enable larger icons/thumbnails in nautilus 3.x?
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Change manually the icon of a nautilus place item
I've added some of my sftp to nautilus but there is no option to change the icon of the marker, since nautilis adds directly to the places section. I searched for a gconf config but didn't found.
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Can't change the icon theme [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Desktop forgets theme?
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 on Virtualbox and I cant' change the nautilus icons. I've followed a lot of tutorials... but nothing works. I can only ...
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How do I change the icon for a particular file type?
I'm trying to change the icon for application/x-hwp files. I've added the icons to the proper places, and checked it with assoGiate (after reading this thread). It shows that my desired icon is ...
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How can I disable truncated long filename in icon view?
I would like to know how I can disable the feature in nautilus which truncates long filenames in icon view? I beleive there may be a gconf key which controls this but I'm not sure which specific key, ...
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How do I change a specific file type Icon in Nautilus?
How can I change a specific file type icon on Unity for example .css .php files icon?
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How can I set desktop icons to auto-align to the right side of the screen?
Now that unity has the bar on the left side of the screen, I find that it ends up obscuring desktop icons since desktop icons auto align top-bottom/left-right. To correct this I need to constantly ...
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Where can I find the Nautilus default icons?
I want to change the color of the back and forward icons in Nautilus but I can't find them anywhere.
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 with Radiance theme (I want to change the orange arrows). I looked in the ...
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How to add a bookmark to the Home Folder icon in Unity?
In question How to add my favorite places as a quicklist in my home's icon in Unity? there is an explanation of how to add my favourite places as a quicklist in the home icon in Unity (i.e. ...
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Nautilus icon missing (after uninstalling Macbuntu 10.10 customization pack)
After using Macbuntu 10.10 theme for a while, I uninstalled it using supplied uninstall.sh file, and now Nautilus icon is missing, and none of the icon theme is showing it. I also found that the ...
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Changing file type icons with Assogiate
I am Ubuntu 10.10 (64 bits) user and I would like know how to make Nautilus display a customized svg icon for all my latex files.
Searching for this information, I discovered that the program ...
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Is there an icon pack for nautilus right click menu?
I saw in default gnome theme icons when I clicked right the mouse. The icons are very useful for orientation in the menu.
See the picture below. How can I add some icons to standard ubuntu theme?
If ...
